Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Carry a big stick,
To threaten from a distance.
Send me pictures of it...
To upset me quick,
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A negotiated peace,
With anyone who has illegally place...
Their feet on occupied land,
May be diplomaticized!
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I have no purpose meant,
To identify and acknowledge...
That which does exist.
With a repeatedness...
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If I have offended you...
I do offer options.
You can choose to look at it this way...
Either I have had a lot of practice at it!
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If you have right winged thoughts,
About leftist ideals.
And whose liberal ways,
Do not appeal to those of conservative zest and zeal.
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They would like to excuse their degradations.
With their hands-on implementation of it.
To accuse others for standards and values...
Placed upon them from 'out-of-the-blue'.
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Foolish are the ones,
Who believe something they have done...
Is forever etched in stone,
Unchanged.
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The more I subject myself to listen to you...
The more inclined I find I should,
Hear your words in my head.
Instead of in my heart.
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Remember this...
When you decided,
To silence your lips.
Believing problems others had...
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I could never trust anyone I knew,
Who told outright lies!
To undo good reputations.
To spew unfounded allegations.
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